Sunday, January 17, 2016

Around 3 months ago I got an opportunity to visit JP Park. I spent couple of hours inside the park, viewing various parts of the park. It is one of the well established and nicely maintained parks even compared to already established Lalbagh and Cubbon parks of our Garden city, Bengaluru. There is no doubt about this...

It was opened in 2006. The park was
developed by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) and is the biggest park in Bengaluru after Lalbagh and Cubbon
Park.

The park has three grooves called Pavithra Vana, which will have mini
grooves called Nakshatra vana, Rashi Vana and Navagraha Vana.
Apparently, each star in the zodiac constellation has a particular
plant/tree ascribed to it. This park has plants that subscribe to your
sun sign.

Jayaprakash Narayan Biodiversity Park is actually located right adjacent
to the Yeshwantpur Railway Station. Jayaprakash Narayan Biodiversity
Park Promoted as the ‘Lal Bagh’ of the North. This park was conceived
and constructed with a lot of elaboration. The authorities seem to have
left no stone unturned in adding attractive structures and concepts to
it. From pretty Gazebos, to a stone park, bamboo garden to life size
dolls of farmers, labourers and cattle, all in keeping with Jaya Prakash
Narayan’s ideology. There are three entrances and enough parking space
is available outside each of these.

The show up of JP Park is the fresh thought of an acupressure walk
region. Walking on this bare-foot for the healing therapy you badly
need. Music played mainly along this walk trail to keep the walkers
energetic. There is a ‘Honge Garden’ in another corner, which seemed
like a tropical forest, with a canopy. It is so dense that hardly any
sunlight reaches the ground. In the heart of the park, there is a pond
full of Indian Magur fish always fighting for foods thrown by children’s
visiting the park. Main attractions in the park are the two water bodies of
15 and nine acres each. The bigger lake has already attracted migratory
birds like pond heron, coot hen, little cormorant, moore hen, pelicans
etc. You can also find various models of : Dr.Rajkumar on cart, rock garden, playing monkeys, pair of oxen and list goes on........

Timings :

The park timings are 5:00 am to 9:00 am and 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

How to reach :

Jayaprakash Narayan Biodiversity Park is actually located right adjacent
to the Yeshwantpura Railway Station.

Or and pass
Indian Institute of Science. Turn left onto MS Ramaiah Road towards
Jalahalli (Mattikere). Arrive at Mattikere Bus-stop and follow the
directions from Mattikere Bus stop below.

From Mattikere Bus stop :

Going towards Gokula / BEL / Jalahalli on MS Ramaiah Road, immediately
after passing Mathikere Bus stop, take a left turn onto Mohankumar Road.
After around 2 minutes, there is an intersection with a bus stop on the
right side of the road. Take a right turn at the intersection onto
Srinivas Murthy Road. The Jayaprakash Narayan Park will be on your left.

We can visit the park along with family and friends and spend freely with out any disturbance....

It is a must visit park. So lets get ready to visit whenever we are free for couple of hours...

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Got an opportunity to explore bit of Madhya pradesh in last December 2012.

As I had enough leaves, I was lucky enough to accompany my Dad whose research paper was published in 5th Ayurveda world conference which held in Bhopal.

We left Bengaluru, (Karnataka) by train and reached by Bhopal, capital city of Madhya Pradesh. Attended world conference for couple of days there. Got a chance to meet research scholars from around 40 countries .... UK, US, Europe...along with our own Indian Eminent Physicians in the field of Ayurveda..

I found literacy rate found to be low in Madhya pradesh. But got to know Hindi which is spoken here is in top class, in whole India. People are financially not so secured. Good to see western culture has not yet affected Madhya pradesh. When I spoke to one of the tourist/student he was telling me : Madhya pradesh is less explored state in India wherein hardly we get any information about tourist places in web.It found to be true. People are here simple. Helpful.

Hope to visit Madhya Pradesh again some time. Thank you MP for making me such a memorable trip, returned with sweet memories..: -)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Ongoing World famous Mysore Dasara (ಮೈಸೂರು ದಸರ) is coming to an end today with known Jamboo savari (ಜಂಬೂ ಸವಾರಿ) .. This is 402nd Dasara Festival in Mysore" Video of World Famous Jamboo Savari - during Mysore Maharaja (ಮಹಾರಾಜರ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ) " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXBXL7wxia0

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Saina
Nehwal (March
17, 1990) is an Indian badminton player currently ranked 5 in the world by Badminton World Federation.

Saina is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton
at the Olympics.

Saina Nehwal was born in a family to
Dr Harvir singh Nehwal and Usha Nehwal in the city of Hisar, Haryana and completed first few years of her
schooling from Campus School. Harvir singh initially worked in CCS HAU and they
then had their residence in the University Campus. He later shifted to Hyderabad and so Saina
spent her growing years in Hyderabad, India. Her foray into
the world of badminton was influenced by her father Dr. Harvir
Singh, a scientist at the Directorate of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad and her
mother Usha Nehwal, both of
whom were former badminton champions in Haryana.

She was spotted by PSS Nani Prasad Rao, badminton coach of the Sports
Authority of Andhra Pradesh, at the age of 8 and he convinced her father to
allow her to pursue a career in badminton. And Mr.Harvir Singh backed his
daughter's dreams.

Saina
first caught India's attention in 2006, when she became the first Indian to win
the Philippines Open despite going into the tournament as the 84th seed. Many
top-seeded players lay vanquished in her wake as she announced her arrival on
the international scene.

In 2008,
she became the first Indian woman to make it to the quarterfinal of the
Olympics in the singles event. That was the 29th edition of the Games in
Beijing.

She also
made it to the World Super Series semi-final in December 2008.

She made
history in 2009 when she won the Indonesian Open, becoming the first Indian to
win a Super Series tournament. She repeated that feat in 2010. She also won a
gold medal in the woman's singles event at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in
2010, which helped India finish No. 2 in the medals tally.

She is
being currently coached by Indonesian champion Atik Jauhari while All England
Champion Pullela Gopichand is her mentor. She was previously coached by
Dronacharya Award winner S M Arif.

Saina has
been honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2009 and Indian Khel Ratna in 2010.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

TheOlympic Games :Olympic Games...Its time almost the whole world is eagerly
waiting for the Olympic Games which begins in 27 days..When it comes about
Indians Performance at previous Olympic games , its not so memorable except few .This is a major international event featuring sports, in which
thousands of athletes participate in a variety of Competitions. The Olympic Games are considered to be
the world’s foremost sports competition and more than 200 nations participate.

This time it is
scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdomfrom 27th July to 12th August 2012..

Estimated 10,500
Athletes participating in this 2012 Olympic games ...